Example sentences of "have be on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale .
2 The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina .
3 The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina .
4 Of these four have been on a surgical waiting list for a median f 9.5 months ( range five to 14 ) .
5 We have been on a high speed , yeah .
6 We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets .
7 On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on .
8 Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India .
9 Kirk Douglas 's reputation for being difficult has , in recent years , become something of a joke , even for those who have been on the receiving end of his temperament .
10 Recently , however , two small-scale studies have been completed which take on board the perceptions and experiences of parents who have been on the receiving end of child protection interventions .
11 A large number of places , particularly the smaller cities and towns of southern England , have been on the receiving end of all three major migration streams , while at the other extreme the large cities , particularly those in northern England and Scotland ( the ‘ urban north ’ ) , have acted as the main reservoir from which these flows have been drawn .
12 Members who have been on the Public Accounts Committee , as I have , will know all about virement , which is not a recondite issue but a practical one .
13 In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas .
14 When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said .
15 Traditional budgets have been on an annual time-scale .
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